This program is a cutting-edge initiative of Global Research. It provides a global perspective on what is really happening in America and around the World – vital information unavailable in the mainstream, with noted guests sharing their expertise with listeners.

Topics discussed will include: the US military agenda in the Middle East, the presidential election campaign, the unfolding financial crisis on Wall Street, the dramatic hikes in gasoline prices, Israel-Palestine, law and justice, Al Qaeda and the “war on terrorism,” what’s happening at the White House and on Capitol Hill, a review of social, economic and environmental issues, and other vital topics of national and international concern.

Francis Boyle is an international law and human rights expert and professor law at the University of Illinois. He also lectures and writes extensively and has authored many books, including “Palestine Palestinians and International Law” and “Biowarfare and Terrorism.”

Both books will be discussed on the program as well the implications of a possible naval blockade on Iran and the Caucasus crisis.

Phyllis Bennis is a noted Middle East expert and author of numerous books on Iraq, Palestine, the UN, and the US quest for world dominance. She’s also a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and the Transnational Institute where she specializes in Middle East and UN issues.

Her three newest 2008 books are: “Inside Israel-Palestine: The Conflict Explained;” “Understanding the US-Iran Crisis: A Primer;” and “Ending the Iraq War: A Primer.” Bennis also recently spent time in the Middle East. We’ll discuss the trip and her assessment of what’s ahead in this volatile world region.

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Award winning author and economics professor Michel Chossudovsky is Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization, Montreal, which hosts the critically acclaimed website: www.globalresearch.ca.

Michel Chossudovsky has taught at universities and academic institutions in North America, Western Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific. He is currently teaching in the International Development and Globalization Studies Program at the University of Ottawa.

He has undertaken field-research in all major regions of the developing World and has traveled to over 100 countries.

“It was as a young visiting professor at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, that Chossudovsky’s interest in “economic repression” was first pricked. Augusto Pinochet’s military junta, which overthrew Salvador Allende in 1973, quadrupled the price of bread and introduced other measures that would now be referred to as “a structural adjustment program.” Chossudovsky set out, with a doctor, to study the malnourishment resulting from the bread price hike. He wound up with a paper that held the Pinochet regime responsible not only for conventional forms of political repression but for “economic repression” that impoverished three-quarters of Chile’s population. Since then he has documented the purposeful impoverishment of people in dozens of countries.” (Juliet ONeill, The Ottawa Citizen)

Michel Chossudovsky has also worked for several United Nations organizations on missions to Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa and has acted as adviser to governments of developing countries.

He is an active member of the Canadian antiwar movement and has written extensively on US and allied war plans in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central Asia.

He is the author of several international best sellers including The Globalization of Povertyand the New World Order (2003) and America’s “War on Terrorism” (2005) and more than 500 articles. His writings have been translated into more than 25 languages. He is also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Stephen Lendman is a renowned author and Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is based in Chicago and has written extensively on war and peace, social justice in America and many other national and international issues. Stephen Lendman is a recipient of a 2008 Project Censored Award, University of California at Sonoma.

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